Manufacturing and Materials
First months as a Design Thinking MDes student
I was previously a student in a French engineering school, and I specialised in materials and mechanical engineering. For my last year of studies, I wanted to find alternatives as I wanted to ...
Looking towards ‘Manufacturing 2075’ with Professor Dale Russell: Part II
The future is here. We are in an era of futuristic scenarios creating transformation of the everyday in the co-evolution of humans and technology. Encouraging and accepting whilst forming blurred boundaries of future concepts and ...
Looking towards ‘Manufacturing 2075’ with Professor Mark Girolami: Part I
Manufacturing engineering has always been data-centric, based on statistics captured from different forms of measurement. But the available data has been slow to arrive, limited, pedestrian. A confluence of new technologies has led to ...
Operationalising sustainability as an opportunity
"Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.” – Peter Ducker quoted in Grayson D, Coulter C, Lee M, All In: The Future of Business Leadership, Routledge, May ...
Our relationship with robots is messy and confused
An animal charity in San Francisco has become a target for much global criticism and local abuse, all because of the behaviour of its most recent recruit: an R2D2-style robot. The 1.5 metre tall Knightscope ...
‘Grill the Aspiring Geeks’ – Cranfield University stories from the Disruptive Innovation Festival
We recently took part in The Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF), a three-week-long online festival of 'disruptive' ideas (from November 6th to 24th 2017), which is free and accessible to everyone. The festival challenged us to think about ...